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[00:01:01] Good morning.
[00:01:03] How we doing, man? It is good to see all of you here. And when I mean all of you, I mean all of you here.
[00:01:12] Shout out to the guys up top on the loft. Hey, friends. Hello. Hello.
[00:01:18] Glad you're joining us as well. So when my kids were little, and I'm sure your kids, if you have kids, if you've dealt with kids, you probably heard this phrase. In fact, if you were a kid, anybody ever been a kid before, okay, you probably said this, okay? You go to your parents, you go to someone and you go, just say yes.
[00:01:36] Just say yes.
[00:01:38] Just say yes. Just say yes. I don't even know if my daughter remembers. She came up to me once. She was like, just say yes, dad. Just say yes. Just say yes. And I was like, what is it? What is it? Tell me. She's like, mom said no, but just say yes.
[00:01:55] And then she said, mom said no, but she said, she's not the boss of you, so you can say yes. And I was like, little does she know. Little does she know.
[00:02:09] You know, what's interesting is you never grew out of that, right? We all want people to say yes, right? Who likes a no?
[00:02:16] No. No means rejection. Yes means possibility. Yes means yeah, let's go. Let's do this. We want a yes. Some. Everybody in everything we ask, right? We do. We all want this, but we do have people. We have family and friends that you're like, oh, just say yes, please.
[00:02:34] My family's big. So when we get together, it's a whole situation. And then when we start organizing it, it is like text messages. And you know those families that need T shirts. Any reunion, I think we are those people we're getting there. We're getting there. But there's always someone in the text message, right, in the text thread that wants to suggest something else. And you're like, just say yes to this.
[00:02:57] Just say yes. And then we have friends as well, right? We have a friend group. You hang out, you got this is the weekend. And that one friend, she's like, well, I don't know, what if we. And we're like, just go with it.
[00:03:11] Just say yes.
[00:03:13] Now, what's funny though, is I think that kind of idea blends into or, you know, kind of trickles into our relationship with God, like spirituality. I think from God, we just want him to, like, just say yes. Now, wouldn't that be nice? Just say yes. Just say yes, man.
[00:03:32] And he's like, what do you want? Just say yes. Because what's interesting about us is they. We find ourselves in a very unique situation. Like, we're excited. It's Easter morning, right? It's exciting, it's great. But we live in a world that, man, that we've prayed prayers about. And we've had things in our life that honestly, we have asked God to just say yes, but it doesn't seem like. It seems like he just gives us a no. So what does God do?
[00:03:59] What does God do? Well, I have this theory and I wanna present to you this. This Easter, I believe that God doesn't just say yes. He actually says yes.
[00:04:09] Yes, but not yet. He says, yes, but not yet. So I'm gonna help you out, parents, if you're here, this is a tip for you. When your kid asks you all kinds of things, you're like, yes, but not yet.
[00:04:24] In fact, let's turn to your neighbor and just say, yes, but not yet.
[00:04:29] Yeah, see, I just helped you out right there.
[00:04:32] Yes, but not yet.
[00:04:35] Now, what's interesting is, is that why does God do this? Why does God do this? Because He. He has the power to provide all the answers we need. He can step into any situation in our lives. But yet. Yet he does not. Yet he chooses to. To delay. Has ever God ever not shown up, in a sense, in your life?
[00:04:56] You're like, I don't know if I want to raise my hand. It's Easter. I don't know. I'm not quite sure. But there is. There is. There seems to be an issue with our prayer life because what happens is that once we get a kind of a no or not nothing, we just stop praying.
[00:05:11] In fact, I believe that there are certain prayers, there's certain hopes that we've stopped hoping for, stopped dreaming about, with prayers that we have stopped praying.
[00:05:21] Maybe for some of you, you know what I'm talking about. I mean, I don't know. But you know, man, there's something that's been.
[00:05:27] That you just stopped praying about two, three years ago. You're like, you know what? I don't even want to get into it because it seems like every time I ask for this, I get a nothing, I get a no.
[00:05:39] And I just want to present to you maybe, just maybe, God is saying, yes, but not yet.
[00:05:48] Not yet. So here's what I wanna do. I wanna take two stories, two resurrection stories, and I wanna connect them together and then think about, and maybe present to you that there's a huge possibility that Easter this weekend means a lot more than you think it could mean. You see, we celebrate Easter. We are here. We're like, okay, Easter. Happy Easter. What's funny about the word Easter is I'm like, it does not exist in the Bible. Did you know that? It does not. You're like, what? What have you been doing this whole time? What, I'm living a lie? What? No, it's not in the Bible at all. At all, actually. It's like an ancient English German word that means spring. A new spring or new season of spring, or a renewal or new life.
[00:06:40] That's why you have bunnies in the Easter story.
[00:06:43] Because bunnies, you know, they hide in the winter and in springtime, they what?
[00:06:49] They come on out. And so we just, you know, we're creative here. We just connected Easter to Jesus. And now you got Jesus and bunnies. And if you were ever wondering why they're connected, that's why they're connected.
[00:07:02] But the word Easter, I love this idea of a new life because I believe that for some of us, there are things in our life that have been not just dormant, not something that you just stop praying about. In fact, they have been dying or maybe possibly even dead.
[00:07:19] There's a love, a passion that just.
[00:07:21] You don't have anymore.
[00:07:24] There's a hope that you just don't have anymore. There's a dream you just don't think about anymore.
[00:07:29] There are things in your life that you're like, ah, I just don't want to get. I don't want to get into. I don't want to get into it because it's connected to grief and rejection and disappointment. So let's jump into the story of the first resurrection and see what it tells us about who God is and how does he work this idea of, yes, but what? Help me out, but what? Not yet in our lives. So the first passage is in John 11, and Jesus is talking to his disciples, and he's like, hey, guys, here's the deal. We have to go back to this place now. Now, this place that Jesus was telling them that we had to go to. He was like, hey, we gotta go there. But the disciples did not want to go. The reason is because that town was hostile towards the disciples and Jesus. But Jesus, bro, his buddy, his friend Lazarus got sick and he got word and also got word that this sickness might actually end up in his death. So we gotta come and help him out.
[00:08:25] And so he tries to talk to his disciples and says, hey, we gotta go. We gotta go. It's just like the same thing, you know? Like people in your life, you're like, hey, hey, we're gonna go do this. And they have different plans. And so Jesus is like, we gotta go back to this. We gotta go back to this. And he tells them this. He says, let me just tell you plainly. Lazarus is what? He's dead. And for your sake, I'm glad that I wasn't there for now that you will really believe. So basically, he's saying is, we're gonna go there and you're gonna have an opportunity to see a part of me that you've never seen before. So then he says, come, come, let's go. What? Let's go. What?
[00:09:00] Go see him and Thomas, that guy, the guy in there, that. Who never wants to go according to plan. He's like, why are we doing this? And he literally says this. What does he say? Let's put it on the screen. He says, what? Let's go to. And what?
[00:09:12] Let's die with Jesus. Let's just go and die with Jesus. Let's just go die with Jesus. You know what? He wants to do this. Let's go die with him. Okay? So they go. They go. What ends up happening is Martha, his sister, actually meets him halfway. And then she says something, which I believe is something we have dared not said out loud, but thought a lot. Martha meets him halfway and she says, lord, Lord, if only you had what, been there, my brother would have not died.
[00:09:45] See, I think it's very real here. It got really real.
[00:09:51] You know, if God, if you would have just showed up, we wouldn't have gone through that loss.
[00:09:59] We wouldn't have needed that surgery. We wouldn't have. If you just. If you just said yes, if you had just healed, if you would have just shown Up.
[00:10:07] If you would have just.
[00:10:10] If you would have cared.
[00:10:11] Martha's saying, I don't. Do you even care?
[00:10:15] Do you even care? Because it's gone. It's over.
[00:10:19] He is dead. It's over. And you had so much time for them. He had four days. You had so much time to show up, but you did not show up.
[00:10:28] So what's going on? Why didn't you? Why didn't you?
[00:10:33] And then Jesus says this to her. He says, I. I am the. Help me out. I am the what?
[00:10:40] And the life. He said, I'm the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live even after dying.
[00:10:47] Everyone who believes in me and believe. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never die. And then he says, do you? Do you what?
[00:10:59] Do you believe this Martha? Which right there in the middle of their. Of her grief, I'm not quite sure what she was thinking. She was like, listen, I don't know what you're saying right now, but I know this. My brother, who I loved, you love, too. He is dead. And he's not just dead. We buried him.
[00:11:17] You see, it's been done. It's been over. I didn't just get a no from you. I got no word from you.
[00:11:24] I got nothing. There wasn't like, you know, texting, hey, on my way.
[00:11:28] No, it was like, nothing says, it's. It's gone, it's over. It's over. And then in that moment, Jesus says something. Hey, I just want you to know I get that. But I want you to know I am the resurrection and the life that there's something about me that you don't know. I have the power to raise dead things to life, and I need you to believe this.
[00:11:52] And right there, he was saying, the reason why I have resurrection power. That's why I'm the resurrection. Because what you need, what your dream needs, what your loss needs, is not to be revived again.
[00:12:09] Because only dead things need a resurrection.
[00:12:13] Only dead things.
[00:12:15] I remember several years ago, actually.
[00:12:20] Yeah, I wasn't giving blood. They were taking it from me.
[00:12:25] They were, they were. I was like, I need a blood test. And, you know, and they're like, blood work done. So I showed up and they're like. I was like, okay. They're like, okay, we need like, four of these bottles filled up. Or I'm like, four? What's greedy? Much? Like, why do you need four? And, you know, so I'm sitting in the chair and it's like, right in front of everybody, she's like, Are you good with needles? I'm like, I'm good with needles. I'm good. It's the blood that I have an issue with.
[00:12:49] And she's like, but you're gonna be good. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna be good. You're gonna be good. Okay. You wanna sit on this chair? I'm like, yeah, I'm good. I'm good. Are you good? I'm like, I'm good.
[00:12:56] I'm good.
[00:12:59] Good. I got this. I'm a grown man.
[00:13:02] I got this.
[00:13:04] She's like, all right, first one. Ah, yeah, yeah, take some more. Go.
[00:13:09] Do it, do it. Second one. Oh, yeah. She's like, you good? I'm like, I'm good. Good. Third. All right, let's go fourth. Yeah, you want a fifth? You want a fifth?
[00:13:20] No. No. Okay. She's like, you good? She's like, I'm about to walk away. You're good? I'm like, I'm good. You're good? You're good? I'm good. I'm good.
[00:13:28] She's like, you're good.
[00:13:32] Sir, wake up.
[00:13:33] Wake up, sir.
[00:13:36] Why is there water on my face?
[00:13:40] Is my mouth moving? What am I doing? I'm trapped in my body. Have you ever been, like, paralyzed? Like, passed? Okay, I passed out, all right? I passed out in front of. No, don't awe me. I don't need that.
[00:13:53] I'm a grown man.
[00:13:55] But I do. Thank you so much.
[00:13:58] I was like, why'd you walk away? I'm like. I was like, it's all. It's like, so. And then they were reviving.
[00:14:03] They throw in buckets of water, like, okay, I'm like, I got it. I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.
[00:14:10] Well, the good news is that your dream and hope does not need to be revived.
[00:14:16] It needs to be resurrected.
[00:14:19] Because it's honestly dead. And you have no faith for it. No faith whatsoever. And so he says this to her. He says, I am the resurrection and the life. So he shows up. He shows up to where Nazareth is buried, and there's the whole same scenario with a stone that's covering the tomb kind of deal. And then he says, hey, open up the tomb. And they go, he's been dead for four days. Read your Bible. He said, and he stinks. Really, he stinks. Okay. He's like, no, just go ahead. Do that. And then Jesus does this. He says this. He says, father, I thank you for hearing me. You always hear me. But I said it out loud for. For the sake of all these people standing here, Jesus is like, I'm praying out loud because they need it.
[00:15:14] We don't.
[00:15:16] They need it so that they will believe.
[00:15:23] They believe that you sent me.
[00:15:25] Then Jesus shouted, help me out. What did he shout?
[00:15:29] Lazarus, come out. And the dead man came out, his hands and and feet wrapped in the strips of linen and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, take off those grave clothes. And what?
[00:15:44] Let him go. You know what's unique about this? Have you noticed? Did you see what happened here?
[00:15:54] Dead things can hear God.
[00:15:59] Things that are dead.
[00:16:01] Lazarus is dead, but yet he can hear the voice of God.
[00:16:07] I wonder right here if God's not saying. Let me just say this for everybody's sake, that you might think that everything your dream is dead. You might believe that your hope is gone. You might feel like your faith has been buried for days or weeks or months or years. But I just want you to know there's something inside of you that's still hidden. Hears me and there's a stirring inside. And you might go, no, I don't have any faith. I don't have any hope anymore. And there's something inside there because something inside there still hears the voice of God.
[00:16:41] He says, hey, come on out. And I wonder if God's not saying, hey, come on out today.
[00:16:49] Come out out of your anxiety. Come on out of your hopelessness. Come out of your cynicism. Come on out of whatever has been buried and held you. Come on out of this. And he tells him, he says, hey, hey, hey. He says, take off his grave clothes and let him go. Did you see the picture here? What it tells me is that you and I don't have to be fully free to move.
[00:17:14] We don't have to be fully healed to walk, but we can still walk towards God. We don't have to be all good, but you can still walk. So right now, wherever you are, right now, you're like. You might be covered up with. With all kinds of things. Here come. Not grave clothes, but things holding you back. Regret is wrapped around you so tight, but you can still move and walk towards him.
[00:17:38] And so this is the first resurrection story. And why is it important? It's important because when Jesus. The moment where he was resurrected, that Easter Sunday, the context there is pretty much the same. Here's why. The disciples who followed him for years saw this guy, the Messiah, the Messiah of the world, they believed then being murdered. They saw a guy who walked on water being violently beaten.
[00:18:07] So when he got arrested, it wasn't Like a fender bender situation. It wasn't a hey weekend. No. He was publicly, publicly, brutally wounded, executed.
[00:18:23] And so what happened is they didn't just have grief. They had traumatic grief.
[00:18:28] All of a sudden they had grief that didn't make any sense. Have you ever been there?
[00:18:34] It's not grief that slowly someone you know is passing. No, it's just all of a sudden and it's violent. And they're like, what is happening?
[00:18:46] And then they had this sense of this maybe this cognitive dissonance, you know, where you're like, how can these two opposing things be true? How can he be the savior of the world, yet he couldn't save himself? Like, how is this even possible? It's when your belief clashes with what actually happened. It's when you're like, I have all the faith in the world to believe that God said yes to this, and I believe for this prayer. And then it doesn't happen.
[00:19:18] And what do you do? You go, what is God saying here?
[00:19:23] And what kind of response did they have? When you read the scriptures, they had like this, like a acute stress response where they just couldn't.
[00:19:37] It wasn't just grief, it was fear. Because here their leader dies, gets murdered. And now they're still the people. They're still the people who are out there and being persecuted. Still the people. The disciples were still those people who were like. Everybody didn't like them either. So now they're thinking they're going to be executed as well. So it wasn't just grief, it was fear.
[00:20:02] It was like a freezing moment. It was like, I don't know what to do. And that's why, if you know the story, that's why they went back to. To fishing. That's why they went back to what they used to do before, because they didn't know what to do. And so that's when we pick up the story. We pick up the story that on Sunday, because this happened on Friday. On Sunday. It says here, on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices that they had prepared and went to the tomb. They found what the stone, what rolled away from the tomb. But when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. It continues there because they were like, what happened? And they find the first. And they go, what did you do? Where have you taken the body?
[00:20:43] Because again, these women were thinking robbery. They weren't thinking resurrection.
[00:20:52] They didn't think like, oh, he got resurrected. No, they were thinking someone rolled in and stole his body. Because back in the day, stealing a person's body, especially that popular, that iconic, was a big deal.
[00:21:06] So they thought they got robbed.
[00:21:09] And so if you know the story, all of a sudden, angels show up, right? And they say this while they were standing, while they were wondering about this, suddenly two men, enclosed that beamed like lightning, stood beside them in their fright. The women bowed down with their faces to the ground. But the men said to them this, why do you look for the living among the what?
[00:21:35] Dead? What a great question. They start off by, like, why are you looking for life in dead places? Why are you looking for the author of Faith in this grave? And I think it's a great question for us because sometimes when I'm hit with grief or disappointment or rejection, I want to just kind of go back to what I am comfortable with. Do you know what I'm saying? Like, sometimes when you hit so many roadblocks in your life and your career, you just wanna go back to what's safe, right? You just wanna go back to the past. We just wanna go back because past was controllable. It was comfortable. It was just that. Have you ever looked at a person and you're like, I think they're, like, reliving their past.
[00:22:18] It's because their future needs a resurrection.
[00:22:22] And they're just trying to revive the past.
[00:22:25] Because for some of us, it's easier, it's human for us to revive the past. We can go back to it, but it's only God who resurrects the future.
[00:22:35] And so here he goes. Why are you looking? Why are you looking? And I wonder, maybe it's a question for you. Why are you looking for that same thing to satisfy you.
[00:22:46] And then they keep on saying, they go on. And he says, he is not here.
[00:22:52] Help me out. What does it say? He is.
[00:22:55] He is risen. Remember how he told you while he was still with you in Galilee, the Son of man must be delivered over the hands of evil men. Be crucified and on the third day be raised again.
[00:23:09] He says, don't you remember he said all these things? He said all these things. They were all true, but we didn't understand. He was like, yeah, yeah, I know he said all these things, but. But we're in the middle of seeing that.
[00:23:23] How could this be true? There's no way. Because here's the issue. When things happen to us, they seem so final.
[00:23:31] Like this rejection, this disappointment, this whatever. It seems so final.
[00:23:37] But maybe, just maybe, it's not final. It's just a Friday.
[00:23:45] It's not final.
[00:23:46] It's just a Friday.
[00:23:48] It's not. No, it's yes, but what?
[00:23:54] Not yet.
[00:23:56] It's not final.
[00:23:57] It's just a Friday.
[00:23:59] Maybe you're just in a Friday.
[00:24:03] And he's like, it's not.
[00:24:06] I promised. All the things I promised are true and will happen. So two things that the Resurrection tells us that Easter should remind us about two things. Number one, it means that you and I, that our worst moments are not our final moments.
[00:24:30] That you and I don't need to be defined by our worst moments in life.
[00:24:36] Like, Jesus didn't deny death.
[00:24:42] You know, he died.
[00:24:44] He just redefined the ending.
[00:24:47] And so maybe something in you needs to die so God could resurrect something new in your life. That's why Easter, maybe, is all what it's supposed to be. It's supposed to remind us that the possibility of a new birth, a spring of new life in your life.
[00:25:06] So you and I don't need to allow our shame and our guilt, our loss, our weakness, our moment of just regret to forever be allowed to do lapse on our minds.
[00:25:24] We don't need to allow this. And not. Because we don't need to allow this. It doesn't need to be that way because he is the resurrection and the life. And God is not looking at you and saying, I just want you to feel really bad, though, about that moment. I just want you to keep on feeling bad about that moment. He's like, no, no, no. I'm gonna.
[00:25:47] I don't judge you by your.
[00:25:50] By your worst moment.
[00:25:54] No, no, it's not.
[00:25:56] It's not your issues that drive, that attract me to you. It's not all the things, all the problems about you and who you are.
[00:26:07] It's not your sin. It's my love for you that drives me to you.
[00:26:17] It is your potential of what I see.
[00:26:22] But I need you to know that right now. I did say yes, but it's just. It's not yet. It's not yet.
[00:26:29] The second thing it tells us this, is that you and I, you and I do not need to be chasing a God out there. A distant God.
[00:26:44] No, we are actually being pursued by a personal savior.
[00:26:50] It's different other religions. You have to prove to the God or to the gods that by your worship that you are worthy of them.
[00:27:01] But the resurrection reminds us, is that Jesus resurrection is proof that God loves us.
[00:27:11] And you know what's so cool about it?
[00:27:16] If it's just a.
[00:27:17] For some of the disciples, I'm like, I think I think some. Maybe Peter could feel this way.
[00:27:23] When he came back from the dead, I'm sure he was like, oh, man, you came back for us.
[00:27:31] You came back for us.
[00:27:34] He did. He came back for them. They're like, our leader is back.
[00:27:38] He's come back for you.
[00:27:41] And so, yeah, you don't need to live in the moment, your worst moments, and you don't need to feel like you're always chasing him just to say yes.
[00:27:56] No, it's. It's a. It's a yes, but it's a not. Not.
[00:28:00] Not yet.
[00:28:02] Not yet.
[00:28:03] And so today, God is speaking to you.
[00:28:07] What is he saying to you?
[00:28:09] You know, I got a text early in the morning, my first text of the morning.
[00:28:14] And, you know, I. You know, I'm obviously Pastor World, right? So the first text is probably. I'm expecting. You know, I saw a text come in, and I'm thinking, obviously, it's not gonna be my family members, but it's gonna be my, you know, pastor friend. They're like, hey, preach it, buddy.
[00:28:30] Good job. You know what I'm saying? Knock it out of the park, bro. Give him Jesus. And I'm like, okay, I gotta find. I gotta find. I gotta find new friends. But anyways.
[00:28:42] But it's hard to find cool pastors. Anyways, anyways, so.
[00:28:48] Pastor friends.
[00:28:50] So I read the text, and I was like, it's not from a pastor. I'm like, oh. And I read the first name. It's Asher. My son's name is Asher.
[00:28:59] But this is not my son Asher. This is Asher Knight. I'm like, huh? What?
[00:29:05] So it was. It's. Yeah, it's Rabbi Asher Knight, buddy of mine, who leads Temple Bethel here in Charlotte.
[00:29:14] Huge Jewish congregation, and we've been doing some work and getting to know each other, trying to get Muslims and.
[00:29:27] Jewish people, Jews and Christians together in the city. And so he texted me, and he was like, I just want you to know, thank you so much for what you're doing. It means a lot for our community. Happy Easter, you know, Also, you want to do brunch soon? I was like, okay, that's hilarious.
[00:29:46] That's hilarious. But I remember our first meeting. Like, we were like, okay, why. Why are we doing this? It's so interesting when different faiths get together because there's just so much to argue about, right?
[00:29:59] There's so much to argue about. So we're sitting there, we're talking and having some amazing Peruvian food. It's good. And he goes, hey, by the way, just.
[00:30:09] Can I Ask you like, why did you, why did you convert?
[00:30:13] So if you don't know, I grew up Muslim.
[00:30:15] And he was like, yeah, why did you convert? Because I'm like, He's like, you know, I grew up Jewish and I'm Jewish and I'm good with my camp, but why did you, why did you, you know, defect? And I was like, what?
[00:30:28] And then he said, what convinced you?
[00:30:31] And I was like.
[00:30:33] I said, honestly, man, don't tell anybody this.
[00:30:38] But honestly, nothing convinced me.
[00:30:42] I wasn't convinced I was introduced.
[00:30:47] He was like, what do you mean? I said, I don't think I can intellectually be convinced of all of this stuff we're talking about. My mind's like, this doesn't make any sense.
[00:30:59] Have you ever been honest? You're like, this doesn't make any sense.
[00:31:06] It's like, I wasn't convinced I was just introduced. He was like, what do you mean? It's like I asked Jesus if he was really real to show himself to me because I was not about to believe anything because it didn't make any sense.
[00:31:21] And he said, and he said, and he did, uniquely for me.
[00:31:27] He was like, huh, I never would have thought that way. I said, yeah, I wonder if you're waiting to be convinced that all this actually is true, that maybe, just maybe things could work out. Maybe what you're trying to do this morning is like, you know, I like this message of hope and I like this message. I'm kind of good right now. I'm good. And you know what? I can handle it. And I think we are really smart, intelligent, well resourced people.
[00:32:01] We can figure out and do a lot of things. We're talented, this crowd.
[00:32:07] We live in a society that we.
[00:32:11] Humanity has come such a long way. We are doing incredible things, not just here, but in space. We're taking over space, apparently.
[00:32:21] But man, we just feel like the things in our life we have to figure out on our own. And so today. Can I just leave you with this?
[00:32:32] You need not to be revived.
[00:32:35] You need a resurrection.
[00:32:37] And God is the God of resurrections.
[00:32:41] So today, if you find yourself going, I don't know what that means. I just want to say. All you have to do is just say, hey, just show yourself to me.
[00:32:50] Just reveal yourself to me, talk to me, show me the way I would speak to me the way I would speak. And then I would challenge you to allow yourself to hear and for you to respond, even though you have things, grave clothes holding you back, just to move towards him.
[00:33:16] And so my Prayer is today that you would understand that you no longer need to feel a sense of rejection from the God of the universe. It's never been a no.
[00:33:30] It's always been a yes.
[00:33:32] But not yet.
[00:33:34] So can I pray for you?
[00:33:36] I want to pray the life of Jesus over you and your family, your dreams, your hopes, your desires, your friends.
[00:33:46] So let me do that for us.
[00:33:49] Would you close your eyes for a minute?
[00:33:52] Lord God, I just lift up.
[00:33:57] God, I feel like I want to say, God, I know you hear me, but I'm saying it out loud for the sake of everybody else.
[00:34:05] Father, you know.
[00:34:08] You know every decision, every regret, every joy, you know every thought we've ever had.
[00:34:23] And, God, you still pursue us.
[00:34:27] So, God, I pray that as we find ourselves in a place where. Where we think it's final, we need to realize it's just Friday.
[00:34:41] And your answer to us is not a no.
[00:34:47] It's a yes, but not yet.
[00:34:50] Not yet.
[00:34:53] So, God, what do we do here in the now, in the right now and the not yet?
[00:35:01] That right now, what we do is we just say, God, we allow you to have your way, allow you to walk into our tomb of our hope and our dreams and our desires, and to speak to dead things to come back to life.
[00:35:22] So I pray, God, I pray your voice, Jesus, over anxiety, pain, sorrow, grief, loss, guilt, abuse.
[00:35:41] We pray your blessing over us, your presence over us, your resurrection, power over us.
[00:35:50] Because, Jesus, you are the resurrection and the life. God, I pray that as we respond, even if some of us go receive communion or light a candle or go to the cross, God, we would receive communion today reminding us of that power. God, we are literally partaking in not just your death, but your resurrection as well.
[00:36:21] God, we pray this in the name of Jesus.
[00:36:24] Amen.
[00:36:25] Thanks for listening to this message from Mosaic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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